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September 2007

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published September 2007.

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Child Secrets

by Marlene Satter

Coming in after the beginning of a soap opera is confusing; one doesn’t quite know who’s who—something even the characters can have trouble figuring out. "Child Secrets" is a soap opera in print the third installment in novel form... Read More

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Ireland

by Elizabeth Millard

Despite the heap of travel memoirs and tourist guides that are published every year, intrepid travelers often find that the best way to get a deeper sense of a country is through its literature. Whether it’s well-loved classics or edgy... Read More

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The Totality of All Being

by Lee Gooden

Jane Joyce has given the world a novel in the same category as books like James Redfield’s The Celestine Prophecy Jostein Gaarder’s Sophie’s World and the latest media darling Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret. Authors like Byrne and... Read More

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Hello Night (Hola Noche)

by Naomi Millán

Most lullaby themes are of putting away and saying goodbye. In this rhyming tale, a mother and her son get ready for bed by taking a stroll and saying hello in English and Spanish to the night. “Hello night. Hello cricket. Hello mouse... Read More

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Bifocal

by Heather Shaw

Is it a longing for order, ethnic magnetism, or adolescent xenophobia that makes high school lunchrooms such showcases for segregation—or is that “niche societies? At "Bifocal"‘s Central Secondary, a high school in an unnamed... Read More

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Fireside Stories

“When the nights grow long and the days grow short, when summer is a distant memory and the cold and darkness of winter an ever-present reality, it is good to sit by the fireside and tell stories,” the author writes. There’s no... Read More

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Lily and the Paper Man

Lily’s life changes the day she bumps into the “Paper Man” while walking home from school on a rainy day. She can’t help but notice a difference between herself, comfortably skipping through puddles with her umbrella and rubber... Read More

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Baby Brains

by Carolyn Bailey

Baby Brains utters his first words the day after he comes home from the hospital: “I’d like to go to school tomorrow.” His dedicated parents have nurtured his intellect from conception with news, music, and language classes. Their... Read More

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